Artha India Ventures

The bloodletting in the Indian startup ecosystem continues with hotel-booking app RoomsTonite shutting shop on the heels of the Stayzilla fiasco, which is still playing out in the media. I have previously said that the startup space in India is safe because of its self-correcting nature. However, I did not expect that startups that failed […]

Artha India Ventures, led by former director of Bombay Stock Exchange Ashok Kumar Damani’s family, funded 15 startups in the last one year with the cash from the power generated by a large wind turbine it owns in an obscure village in the desert state of Rajasthan. The windmill that is installed at Bhopalgarh, 30 […]

Bangalore-based GoZefo, an e-commerce portal marketplace for second hand and factory seconds goods run by Zero Effort Technologies Pvt. Ltd has raised $1.05 million (Rs 6.9 cr) in funding led by Helion Venture Partners, according to the filings with the Registrar of Companies (ROC). BeeNext, a Singapore-based early-stage technology venture fund, also participated in the […]

Anirudh Damani, partner at Artha India Ventures, has made nine investments to date this year, just five deals behind Ratan Tata. His investments include companies such as ConfirmTKT, FindUrClass, Vahanalytics, ShabdaNagari, vPhrase Analytics, Roadhouse Hostels, and others. In an interview to Techcircle, Damani shares the strategy he implies while investing. He speaks about what makes […]

Anirudh Damani, partner at Artha India Ventures, has made nine investments to date this year, just five deals behind Ratan Tata. His investments include companies such as ConfirmTKT, FindUrClass, Vahanalytics, ShabdaNagari, vPhrase Analytics, Roadhouse Hostels, and others. In an interview to Techcircle, Damani shares the strategy he implies while investing. He speaks about what makes […]